Heart Joy && keeping up with life.

  It's getting super chilly out, right? Oh man I wasn't ready for this but here it is.

   In the winter *anything below 40 degrees I'll wear my hats and scarfs sometimes I even fall asleep in both, which I don't recommend with a scarf. Shamelessly, here I am today..lol ;)

  I haven't blogged as much as I said I would this year but hey.. I'm a mom. That is my 

eternal excuse for everything. 'Don't mind my messy morning hair, I'm a mom.'

'I forgot school got out early today.. It's my 'mom brain'!' I could go on for days really, I love it & let me say THANK GOD for best friends/wonderful assistants that save your life when you do actually forget school was out early.. Whew! :p

It's good, it's life, it's ever changing, moving quickly the days are so fast sometimes I can't even keep up! I wake up, sneak into my girls' room lay on the bottom bunk with my youngest as she pretends she is not there {every single day} by covering herself completely with the blanket & my morning is made!

In the last 2 years of running this part-time moving into full time business 

{which I love every second of}

I've learned so many wonderful things about myself.

I've had moments that were trying as a Mom and business lady, and as a human being. Moments I need to separate

or learn some sort of balance. 

WOW!

It  can just get so flat out insane. 

It was the moment, I decided and in this you all can see my humanity. I promised myself this. 

"you are going to see things, you are going to have things happen that are going to drain the ever-loving life out of you...... And for what? these 'things' are of no use to your heart or you in general. these things attack your very soul, your very being & steal away what very precious joy, & woman you have it! You are unique, you are precious in the eyes of God, your family & your friends"

For me this promise to myself was not possible without the Holy Spirit.

He molded my heart after troubled times, he showed me the truth & made it more than obvious. The spirit tells me 'Stacey, your heart will be bittered by any of these things you allow to control you 'So Simply DON'T, RUN! Run like 
I told Joseph to run, turn your back to it & RUN!

Oh JOY!

My life, my love, my heart is so much better

Of course there are times of weakness of course my days are sometimes few when I don't stomp my feet and ask, 'why? someone needs to listen to me and someone needs to see what I see and feel what I feel'. Someone certainly has to understand.

                    Then there are moments my little ladies come up behind me as I plug away, marketing, editing,ordering, or especially {fixing a tech issue} that's probably the worst over-stressed Mommy moment there is. I feel it. It sucks. I am sometimes able to pull myself out of that moment, back away from my desk and Just be, & sometimes I am not and it          

 only adds to my stress that they now need me too. 

But I need to be with my children who are tugging at my heart for love and affection.  

There was a point this summer where I just lost it. On the road traveling almost

Every. Single. Weekend 

Just me, James Taylor & a few others in the CD player, most of which belonged to my Dad before he passed. James is great for making you really think about life, love, relationships && things gone. My favorite is actually his cover of >> Yesterday<< that's the exact one. 

It's like somehow my Dad knew these things to leave me to make me think.

Dwell on what I could regret if I don't toughen up & move along.

Don't regret yesterday! Live today and make it count.

Spend time, spend your love, your life on those 

who bring your heart joy!
But not in a selfish way either, do it to where you are breaking 
away and turning away from those things that do not allow growth.

 Make sure to take time to do things that matter for others.

Smile brightly at the person driving bitterly down the road next to you pay it forward to the person behind you at your local coffee shop. 
Be that wonderful you, you are!

Until Next Time,

Stace B